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I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

People who never get carried away should be.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.

It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

I am sure that there are some single payer advocates who think the only thing worth fighting for is single payer.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child,

Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.

are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ?

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.

Though Moneyball had the talents of screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin going for it, they weren't baseball insiders.

Infuse your life with action...

We already live in the futureit's not like we're waiting for something to happenit's just a matter of doing it.

I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

I'm gonna live today like this is my last day.. :)

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

For Beatrice--My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

Hope and be happy that all's for the best!

I'm always ready for a change. I'm Irish. I'm a leprechaun.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I'm really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.

I'm always looking for inspiration.

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

What I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

I have a lot of respect for Ovechkin as a player. I like his enthusiasm. I know the kid has a zest for life and a joy for the game.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

I've never been happy with anyone, like I am when I'm with you.

Ive done a lot of shows that didnt do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.

I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me.

Hope for the best and work for it.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

Every man for himself.

I auditioned just for fun.

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

Doing things for others always pays dividends...

NGOs are now turning to market forces as a catalyst for change

It's important to stand up for what you believe in.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.